March 20 Monday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:

Today Jean and I went up to the little Carnegie Theatre to see Mary Lawton in a rehearsal of Magda. It was harrowing enough, for the director’s criticism of the young actors was scathing and heart searching in sarcasms. It’s the only way though to bring them into perfection, and when we came home after 4½ hours of it we were too exhausted to eat our dinner, too exhausted to hear intelligently Mr. Clemens reading of the Bagheera Story.

Mr. Clemens went down to the Italian Consul [MTP: TS 46]. Isabel Lyon’s journal #2: “Mr. Clemens went to the Italian Consul & signed for a request to extend the time for the examination of witnesses in the Massiglia Case. Sig. Traverso will present it to the Law Courts of Florence” [MTP TS 8].